There are a bunch of products out there for sale that you should purchase for your computer. Some of them are really expensive, while others can be really cheap or even free. I am going to come up with a list of categories and products that I am going to recommend for people. Along with these recommended products, I will give a review on what I’ve heard about the products and what I think about them.
Operating Systems:
Windows 7 Home Edition – $100. This is the most general Windows 7 edition you can purchase. It comes with an improved desktop navigation. It also starts programs a lot more faster, and makes it easier for you to quickly find documents you use most often. It also lets you experience the web faster and safer than ever before with Internet Explorer 8. You can watch free TV through internet TV. Also, there is a new sharing center with this, which allows you to share better with other PCs in your network.
Windows 7 Ultimate Edition - $200. The perks to Windows Ultimate are not many, compared to Windows Home. You get everything that Windows Home does, except this comes with a download that you can run Windows XP business programs in a Windows XP mode. You also connect to company networks more securely because it uses Domain Join. In addition to the full-system Backup and Restore, which is found in all editions, you can back up to the home or business network.
Windows 7 Ultimate Edition - $220. This is the exact same as Windows Ultimate, except it has two more features. Feature number one is it helps protect data on your PC and storage devices against theft with BitLocker. The second feature is that you can work in any language of your choice. It comes with 35 different languages. This is a great way to get people to pay extra for stuff.
Linux – Free. This is a free operating system that you just have to boot onto your computer. It is not nearly as user friendly with any other types of Operating Systems, but users who know how to use this operating system, say it’s the best. I’ve had friends that have used it, and absolutely love the system.
Office Programs:
OpenOffice.org – Free. This is a free program that has amazing features. The features include being able to create reports, write word documents, create presentations, and even examine and edit spreadsheets. This program is a huge downgrade compared to Microsoft Office, but if you don’t want to purchase it, then it’s a must.
Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010- $280 – This is the most up to date copy of Microsoft Office that is out there. This comes complete with Access, Excel, InfoPath, Lync, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Projector, Publisher, SharePoint Workspace, Visio, and Word. This combination makes Microsoft Office extremely worthwhile for the price. You can pretty much do anything with that. You have everything included from databases, spreadsheets, word documents, and presentations.
Desktop Publishing
Adobe Pagemaker - $500 – This program lets businesses and professionals create high-quality publications such as brochures and newsletters. You can quickly lay out publications by creating frames to hold text and graphics, and also apply master pages. You can also use things such as kerning and tracking to typeset your text professionally.
QuarkXPress - $800 – This program does the same thing as Adobe Pagemaker, with allowing you to create your own designs and stuff like that. It’s obviously more expensive, and it does have better reviews, but I think that this program are for people who are truly dedicated to what they do. Adobe would be more of an intermediate level program.
Photo Editing
Photoshop 6 - $600 – This program is for hardcore professionals that want to do photo edit. This is for people who take photographs and usually end up editing them. It has an amazing and friendly user interface. It also has amazing layering technology implemented into it as well. It also lets you use lots of different shapes as well.
Paint Shop Pro - $100 – This program is for people who are not as professional. This is a raster graphics editor and vector graphics editor for computers that run Microsoft Windows operating systems. The newest editions of this are user friendly with Windows 7, and come with many things such as Multi-photo adjustments, express lab, camera RAW leb, object extractor, and project creator.
Internet Browsers:
Mozilla Firefox – Free – Mozilla has been known for quite a while and had a lot of loyal customers, until Chrome rolled around. They are known for having a strong foundation, and great speed with this browser. They say that their speed is in fact, more faster than Google’s. The bad about Mozilla is that they have a crash potential, which is unlike Chrome.
Internet Explorer – Free w/ Windows – The nice thing about having this website is the support that comes with it from it being the cyberspaces gladitor’s internet browser. This program has a reputation of having the safest browsing features. Along with that, the searching has improved in recent upgrades. The only bad things about this browser are the speedtests, which show that this browser is significantly lower than other browser choices. Also, this browser has the potential to cause a lot of crashes. Some users are complaining the problems are getting worse. In my opinion, this is the worst of the browsers.
Google Chrome – Free – Chrome is the number one browser that people are using today. It has superior reliability, and rarely crashes. Chrome is also extremely fast when it loads up, and has a clean design that waste’s no screen space. Also the searching for this browser combined with the “Incognito” mode for privacy makes this browser superior. The only bad reviews about Chrome is that it monitors and collects too much data from you, has vulnerabilities because it’s a beta browser, sites and online services don’t work with Chrome, and doesn’t have any add-ons or customizable menu’s yet.
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